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8. “The Unhistorical Dead”

Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 17
  6. 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 34
  7. 3. Sherlock Holmes and “the Cesspool of Empire” 63
  8. 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 86
  9. 5. Intermezzo 122
  10. 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason 140
  11. 7. “Deep in Blood” 167
  12. 8. “The Unhistorical Dead” 192
  13. Conclusion “Power Smashes Into Private Lives” 217
  14. Notes 231
  15. Index 269
Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue
This chapter is in the book Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue
https://doi.org/10.7312/sidd13808-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 17
  6. 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 34
  7. 3. Sherlock Holmes and “the Cesspool of Empire” 63
  8. 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 86
  9. 5. Intermezzo 122
  10. 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason 140
  11. 7. “Deep in Blood” 167
  12. 8. “The Unhistorical Dead” 192
  13. Conclusion “Power Smashes Into Private Lives” 217
  14. Notes 231
  15. Index 269
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